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BACKGROUND OF THE INV NTinN
This invention involves a neutral gray colored glass that has a
luminous transrnittance that makes it highly desirable for use as privacy
glazing in vehicle, e.g, in the rear portions of vans. In particular, the
glass
of the present invention has a luminous transmittance range of 20 to 50%.
The desired color and performance is attained by using iron, cobalt,
selenium and/or nickel as colorants, In addition, the glass of the present
invention generally exhibits Lower infrared and total solar energy
transmittance than typical green glasses used in automotive applications to
reduce heat gain in the interior of the enclosure. The glass is also
compatible with flat glass manufacturing methods. .: ,;
Various heat-absorbing glass substrates are known in the art.
The primary colorant in typical green tinted automotive glasses is iron,
which is usually present in both the Fe203 and Fe0 forms. As is
conventional, the total amount of iron present in a glass is expressed herein
as Fe203, regardless of the form actually present. Typical green tinted
automotive glass has about 0.5 percent by weight total iron, with the ratio
of FeO to total iron being about 0.25.
Some glasses, e.g. U.S, Reissue Patent No. 25,312 to
Duncan et al.; produce a gray color in the glass by including nickel oxide es
a colorant. However, inclusion of nickel containing materials must be
carefully controlled because the presence of nickel during the melting
pfocess sometimes leads to the formation of nickel sulfide stones in the
glass: Addifiional potential problems faced when using nickel include haze
formation on the glass surface due to reduction of the nickel in the tin bath
and change in the glass color when it is heat treated.
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To avoid this problem, nickel-free colored glasses containing
iron oxide, cobalt oxide, and selenium were developed as disclosed
in U.S.
Patent No. 3,296,004 to Duncan et al., IJ.S. Patent No. 3,723,142
to Kato
et al. and British Patent Specification 1,331,492 to Bamford. In
U.S.
Patent No. 4,104;076 to Pons, instead of nickel, Cr203 or U02 are
used in
combination with iron oxide, cobalt oxide, and selenium to produce
gray
glass. A more recent, nickel-free version of gray glass is disclosed
in U.S.
Patent No. 5,023,210 to Krumwiede et al. which uses iron oxide,
cobalt
oxide, selenium, and chromic oxide as colorants.
Many of the commercially available gray glasses are too dark
to be used in the forward vision area of a vehicle. In addition,
the glasses
may also be too dark to allow safety lighting mounted in the interior
of the
vehicle from being seen from the exterior of the vehicle. It would
be
desirable to have a neutral gray glass that provides a dark gray
color for use
in privacy areas of a vehicle while allowing adequate safety lighting
illumination and have a consistent color and further that is compatible
with
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SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides a glass composition having a
neutral gray color and a luminous (visible) transmittance within
a range that
allows the glass to be used as privacy glazing in a vehicle. The
glass of the
present invention has a standard soda-lime-silica flat glass base
composition. It has been found that a neutral gray colored glass
with a
luminous transmittance (C.L:E. illuminant A) ranging from 20% to
50% at a
thickness of 3.9 millimeters may be attained by using as colorants:
0.15 to
1.2 wt. % of the total glass Fe203 (total iron), no greater than
0.30 wt. %
FeO, 60-180 PPM CoO, 0-30 PPM Se, and 0-550 PPM NiO. A preferred
embodiment of such a glass composition includes 0.20 to 1.1 wt.
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The dominant wavelength of the glasses in the present
invention may vary somewhat in accordance with particular color
preferences. In the present invention, it is preferred that the glass be a
neutral gray color characterized by dominant wavelengths in the range of
480 to 580 nanometers, preferably 485 to 540 nanometers, with an
excitation purity of no higher than 8%, preferably no higher than 3%.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
The base glass of the present invention, that is, the major
constituents of the glass without colorants, is commercial soda-lime-silica
glass characterized as follows:
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Na20 10-20
Ca0 5-15
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To this base glass the present invention adds colorants in the
fprm of iron, cobalt, selenium and/or nickel. In one particular.embodiment
of the invention, the glass is essentially nickel-free; that is, no deliberate
addition of nickel or nickel compounds is made, although the possibility of
traces of nickel due to contamination may not always be avoided. The
glass in the present invention is essentially free of other colorants. It
should be appreciated that the glass compositions disclosed herein may
include small amounts of other materials, for example melting and refining
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aids, tramp materials or impurities. Such materials may include, but are not
limited to chromium, manganese, cerium, molybdenum, titanium, chlorine,
zinc, zirconium, sulfiur, fluorine, lithium and strontium. It should be
further
appreciated that some of these materials as well as others may be added to
the glass to improve the solar performance of the glass as will be discussed
later in more detail.
The selenium colorant contributes a pink color to the glass as
well as a brown color when complexed with iron to form iron selenide
(FeSe). Cobalt produces a blue color. Iron contributes yellow and blue in
varying proportions depending upon the oxidation state. Nickel, if used,
contributes a green-brown to yellow-brown color.
The glass of the present invention may be melted and refined
in a continuous, large-scale, commercial melting operation and formed into
flat glass sheets ofi varying thicknesses by the float method in which the
molten glass is supported on a pool of molten metal, usually tin, as it
assumes a ribbon shape and is cooled. It should be appreciated that as a
result of forming the glass on molten tin, measurable amounts of tin oxide
may migrate into surface portions of the glass on the side that was in
contact with the tin. Typically, a piece of float glass has an Sn02
concentration of at least 0.05 wt. % in the first few microns below the
surface of the glass that was in contact with the tin.
The total amount of iron present in the glass is expressed
herein in terms of Fe20g in accordance with standard analytical practice,
but that does not imply that all of the iron is actually in the form ofi
Fe203.
Likewise, the amount of iron in the ferrous state is reported as FeO, even
though it may not actually be present in the glass as FeO. The proportion
of the total iron in the fierrous state is used as a measure of the redox
state
ofi the glass and is expressed as the ratio Fe0/Fe20g, which is the weight
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percent of iron in the ferrous state (expressed as FeO~ divided by the
weight percent of total iron (expressed as Fe203f . Unless stated -
otherwise, the term Fe203 in this specification shall mean total iron ,
expressed in terms of Fe203 and the term Fe0 shall mean iron in the
ferrous state expressed in terms of FeO.
The glass compositions disclosed in the present invention may
be made using any of several types of melting arrangements, such as but
not limited to, a conventional, overhead fired continuous melting operation
as is well known in ,the art or a mufti-stage melting operation, of the type
that is discussed later in more detail. However, for glass compositions
having a redox of less than 0.30, the former operation is preferred and for .
glass compositions having a redox of 0.30 or greater, the latter operation is
preferred.
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pulverulent state, are fed into a rotating, drum-shaped liquefying vessel.
As batch material is exposed to the heat within the vessel, liquefied
material flows down a sloped batch material lining to a central drain
opening at the bottom of the vessel. A stream of liquefied material falls
freely from the liquefaction vessel into a dissolving vessel for the
dissolving
stage. The dissolving vessel completes the dissolution of unmelted
particles in the liquefied material coming from the liquefaction stage by
providing residence time at a location isolated from the downstream
refining stage. The dissolving vessel may be in the form of a horizontally .
elongated refractory basin with the inlet and outlet at opposite ends'thereof
so as to assure adequate residence time. The refining stage preferably
consists of a vertically upright vessel that may be generally cylindrical in
configuration having an interior ceramic refractory lining shrouded in a gas-
tight, water-cooled casing. As the molten material enters the vessel from
the dissolving vessel, it encounters a reduced pressure within the refining
vessel. Gases included in the melt expand in volume, creating a foam. As
foam collapses, it is incorporated into the liquid body held in the refining
. vessel. Refined molten material is drained from the bottom of the refining
vessel into a receiving chamber and delivered to a float forming chamber.
A stirring arrangement may be employed in the multi-stage
process to homogenize the glass after it has been refined in order to
,; . . produce glass, of the highest optical quality. If desired, a stirring
arrangement may be integrated with a float forming chamber, whereby the
glass in the stirring chamber rests on a layer of molten metal. The molten
metal may be continuous with the molten metal constituting the support in
the forming chamber, and is usually comprised essentially of tin.
The multi-stage operation discussed above generally operates
at a redox level of 0.30 or higher; however redox levels below 0.30 may be
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achieved by increasing the amount of oxidizing constituents in the glass
batch. For example, manganese oxide may be added to lower the redox
level. Redox may also be controlled by adjusting the gas/02 ration of the
burners.
The transmittance data provided throughout this disclosure is ~
based on a glass thickness of 3.9 millimeters (0.154 inch). Luminous
transmittance (LTA) is measured using C.I.E. 1931 standard illuminant "A"
over the wavelength range 380 to 770 manometers at 10 manometer
intervals. Total solar ultraviolet transmittance (TSUV ) is measured over
the wavelength range 300 to 390 manometers at 10 manometer intervals.
Total solar infrared transmittance (TSIR) is measured over the wavelength
range 800 to 2100 manometers at 50 manometer intervals. Total solar
energy transmittance (TSET) represents a computed value based on
measured transmittances from 300 to 2'100 manometers at 50 manometer
intervals. All solar transmittance data is calculated using Parry Moon air
mass 2.0 solar data. Glass color in terms of dominant wavelength and
excitation purity are measured using C.I.E. 1931 standard illuminant "C"
with a 2° observer.
To determine this transmittance data, the transmittance values
are integrated over the wavelength range [a,b]. This range is divided into n
equal subintervals of length h by points {X0, X1 ~ ..., Xn} where Xi = a +
(i, ~C h). In the present disclosure, the f3ectangular Rule is used to compute
the transmittance data. An interpolating function is used to approximate
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Tables 1, 2 and 3 illustrate examples of glass compositions at
a 3.9 mm (0.154 in.) reference thickness which' embody the principles
of
the present invention. Only the colorant portions of the examples
are listed
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The information provided in Tables 1 and 2 is based on a
computer model that generates theoretical spectral properties based
on the
glass compositions. The compositions in Table 1 exclude nickel
oxide as a
coloranfi while the compositions in Table 2 include nickel oxido
as a
colorant. The information provided in Examples 31, 32, 33 and 34
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3 is based on experimental laboratory melts. The remaining information
in
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melting ,
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may be
preferred that the glasses disclosed in the present invention be
made using
a conventional, overhead fired continuous melting process as discussed
;
earlier.
' it should be noted that the modeled compositions in Table 1
included from 6 to 13 PPM of Cr203 and 1 PPM NiO, both of which
are
considered to be 'tramp and/or residual material levels, to better
reflect the
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Table 2
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experimental
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is preferred that the glass be a neutral gray color characterized by dominant
wavelengths in the range of 480 to 580 manometers, preferably 485 to
540 manometers, with an excitation purity of no higher than 8%, preferably
no higher than 3%.
In the present invention, the colorants used to produce a
neutral gray colored glass with an LTA ranging from 20% to 50% at a
thickness of 3.9 millimeters includes 0.15 to 1.2 wt. % Fe20g (total iron),
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maintained between about 0.20 to 0.30, and preferably between 0.24 to
0.28 which is the typical operating range for a conventional overhead fired
molting operation', Higher redox levels may be attained by processes
disclosed herein, but the use of higher redox ratios is preferably avoided to
prevent excessive volatilization of selenium during melting.
Glass made by the float process typically ranges from a sheet
thickness of aboufi 1 millimeters to 10 millimeters. For the vehicle glazing
applications, it is preferred that the glass sheets have a thickness within
the thickness range of 1.8 to 6 millimeters.
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to the glass compositions of the present invention to improve its solar
performance. Although not limiting in the present invention, a total of up to
, 2.0 wt. % of oxides of cerium, vanadium, titanium and molybdenum and
combinations thereof may be used as UV absorbers to reduce the TSUV of the
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